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Never Swim Alone…
February 27, 2012
For the next 6 weeks I’ll be reposting pieces I’ve written over the years. These are a few examples of essays that will find themselves expanded with fresh air and correct punctuation then placed lovingly into the book I hope to publish through Kickstarter. If you like what you read I hope you will share […]
Reflections from the Glass Factory
February 25, 2012
I love the idea that glass begins as sand and that sand was once perhaps rock. I love the image of mirrors and windows starting life on a beach somewhere, that bare feet walked that beach, that sunsets infused that sand, heated that rock, whispered into the memory of that substance. I love the thought […]
Kickin up…
February 16, 2012
For those of you who write to me day after day, week after week and ask about a Mrs Metaphor book (Hi Mom!) I finally have some good news. I’m putting together a Kickstarter campaign to fund this long-awaited tome. I am hoping to have it up and running in the next week or two. […]
un-valentine…
February 14, 2012
I had considered posting Rumi for you this poetry Tuesday but I got sidetracked by an old memory. I made a joke in response to a friend on Twitter and I was reminded of those grade school Valentine’s Days. As a word of warning, I don’t remember them fondly. Pinterest didn’t exist back then, nor […]
Missives: This is your life…
February 12, 2012
Dear one, This is your life- the trials, the joys, the late night worry, the best chocolate dessert you ever tried, the vacation, the work day, the school friends, the people you hold close when the storm comes, the losses, the big wins, the tears in the dark, the laughing til you ache, the sudden […]
fotos: floating…
February 10, 2012
The John J. Shedd Aquarium might just be my new happy place. When my kids are older I hereby vow that I will go to this place and sit for hours just watching the fish swim and the jellyfish float. It is peaceful, centering, thought-provoking. This friday fotos is all about the floating. Whilst visting the […]
life and life and life…
February 8, 2012
Not long ago my kids and I were out driving and we drove by a Pro-Life group protesting a women’s clinic. As we pulled up to the stop light, they held signs up to our car window of aborted fetuses. My children were horrified. I was horrified. It was, in my opinion, the worst approach […]
metaphor
from the Latin. metaphora,
from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word,
lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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